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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
- What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
- Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
- Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
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- PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
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- YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
- BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
- CLM - Clueless Mod: The mod probably just doesn't understand how their software works.
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The implication would be that they may, in fact know.
They're OP, so they opened the discussion, and with all this sockpuppeting and user impersonation going on suddenly that seems to have been provoked by it, the accusation seems suspicious.
The only clearly defined traits between some of the sockpuppets are their attitudes and insults. If you have to begin to claim that they are in on it and that its all an act, then you can go full in and claim that this entire thread is an act to farm drama from some demented troll, and it can go any way you want.
I can't say OP inspires me with great confidence regarding their innocence, but going by their arguments and the ones that have been brought on, at least the oldest before the troll accounts began infecting the thread, they made some good points. But all good facades do. Their modlog has its fair share of drama.
The jump from that to a sockpuppeteer, well, frankly, I would assume that's more the realm of karmawhores from my experience on reddit, and there were no shortage of ones who could be quite charismatic and then flip out to be a completely vulgar toxic troll. Those that sockpuppeteer want control of the narrative, and what's the best position to have control on a place like Lemmy?
I may have my biases, but I would not stack my bets against one single suspect here.